<p>Hey guys,</p>
<p>Just curious, do we get to keep our calmail accounts even after we've graduated? Or will they remove it from their server upon graduation?</p>
<p>They remove it nine months after your name is no longer in the registration records. They also send you a warning before they purge your account.</p>
<p>@cal (<a href="http://cal.berkeley.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://cal.berkeley.edu/</a>) also has an email forwarding service, so you might check if that's what you want. @cal is available to Cal alumni, Haas students and CAA members.</p>
<p>on another note, they just bumped our storage to 1 gig</p>
<p>really, they close your account? i thought the cal email was lifetime</p>
<p>Yeah, I though they were available forever. =(.</p>
<p>That's the "official" stance. Anecdotally, there are people who graduated in 2007 who I know still maintain their CalMail accounts without issue.</p>
<p>I'm guessing there's no need for Cal to purge them immediately after they become eligible for deletion, but I'd look at making a professional email for your name on your own terms not too long after graduation anyway. </p>
<p>Extending</a> CalMail access for students on approved leave | UC Berkeley iNews</p>
<p>Pity. Was hoping it'd be lifetime; a lot of colleges these days allow students to keep their email for life.</p>
<p>Is this a new policy? I have had teachers at my high school that are ardent Bear fans and still use their Cal e-mails as their official business e-mail eschewing my school's own e-mail. They've said that if there's still use and log-ins, then the account will not be closed or purged.</p>
<p>I think it might have to do with whether you join the Cal Alumni Association. I just graduated and still needed access to the library so I joined right away. I got my alumni card which currently has an expiration date of 1/31/2012. When I go to my new OskiCat account it lists my calmail account and below that it says “Expiration Date:01-31-2012” which is different than the expiration date on my new library card. I’m paying for a lifetime membership (over time) so I should expect the expiration date for the calmail account to go away (I’ll just need to renew my library card periodically if I want to continue to have access).</p>
<p>CuChulainn> nice handle. I loved taking celtic studies courses.</p>
<p>I just joined CAA and didn’t see anything in the literature about keeping the email as a perk.</p>
<p>All graduates, whether members of the association or not, can set up a forwarder account upon graduation. It will be offered to you at the time that your student account is ready to be terminated, but you keep the email address you have. The only difference is that your permanent lifetime email address <a href=“mailto:xxxxx@berkeley.edu”>xxxxx@berkeley.edu</a> will forward any incoming email to another email service that you maintain. your messages go there and that is where you will read them, but senders still address messages to you the same way as with your current calmail.</p>
<p>From [FAQs</a> about email forwarding | @Cal great minds online](<a href=“http://cal.berkeley.edu/help/faq/email_forwarding]FAQs”>http://cal.berkeley.edu/help/faq/email_forwarding) While it mentions that 2009 grads will be given the conversion offer in fall 2009, I expect this to hold true for every future year, May 2010 grads receiving the conversion offer in fall 2010, 2011 in fall 2011 . . . </p>
<p>Q. I received an email telling me that my student account is going to be terminated. What does it mean?
A. If you are a Cal alum who graduated in 2006-2009, today is your lucky day! You are eligible to convert your student email addresses into email forwarding addresses.
May 2009 grads, you’ll be able to convert your account in the fall of 2009.</p>
<p>Your student addresses remain active. But instead of managing messages in your Calmail inbox, your messages will be forwarded to another email account of your choice, such as Gmail or Yahoo! Before you convert your student account, retrieve messages and attachments that you want to keep. Once you convert your Berkeley.edu account, you won’t have access to it. </p>
<p>Q. How do I convert it?
- Back up any messages you want from your Calmail inbox before August 3, 2009. As soon as you convert your account, your Calmail inbox will be terminated.</p>
<ol>
<li>Graduated 2008 and earlier: register for an alumni CalNet ID, if you haven’t already registered for UC Berkeley’s alumni community, @cal. Your old student ID will not work.</li>
</ol>
<p>Graduated May 2009 or later: log into @cal with your student CalNet ID and passphrase.</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Click on Email Forwarding and login with your alumni CalNet ID and passphrase.</p></li>
<li><p>If your student email address is eligible for conversion, click the box next to it. You also have the option of creating other @cal email forwarding addresses, too. Then, enter a forwarding destination. If you choose to have several forwarding addresses, they all must forward to the same email address.</p></li>
<li><p>You’re done! </p></li>
</ol>
<p>Q. How long can I keep my student account after I graduate?
Alums have a nine month grace period after their graduation to convert their Berkeley.edu. If you don’t convert it, the name on the account is released back into the pool for incoming students.</p>
<p>That’s pretty cool. Good thing I chose a good email address</p>
<p>Rider730–</p>
<p>You are correct. Cal’s alumni community, cal.berkeley.edu, allows recent grads the ability to convert their berkeley.edu into a forwarding account–as long as you are not a current campus employee. The date when it is available is based on the degrees being conferred by the Registrar’s Office.</p>
<p>Generally speaking, for spring grads degrees are conferred in early August; summer grads, early October; and winter grads, early March.</p>
<p>To get to your email forwarding page in @cal, the alumni community, go to cal.berkeley.edu. If you graduated May 2009 or later, log in with your CalNet ID and passphrase. If you graduated earlier, click the Register link.</p>
<p>Questions? Email <a href=“mailto:atcal@alumni.berkeley.edu”>atcal@alumni.berkeley.edu</a> and tell them you read about the service on College Confidential.</p>
<p>My CalMail account just expired yesterday. I graduated last August, so the grace period was less than six months for me. The funny thing is that my notification e-mail gave me an expiration date of February 6th, so I guess I got three extra days. :P</p>
<p>The510 is correct; you can convert your CalMail address to an e-mail forwarding one. However, it will not store any messages, so you will need to provide your own e-mail account.</p>
<p>Strangely, some Cal alumni (who graduated several years ago) have reported that their accounts have never expired. I wonder if the CalMail deactivation process is done by hand? It’s also entirely possible that the expiration policy was recently added, and that the previously created accounts were grandfathered in.</p>
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<p>Danny
University of California, Berkeley '09 (B.S.)</p>